CHICOPEE — Closing Job Corps programs like the one in Chicopee would be “irrational,” a Wednesday court filing said.

Backers insist the Department of Labor’s case against the 60-year-old nationwide anti-poverty program is rife with falsified or misleading numbers.

This week’s complaint persuaded a federal judge to block a shutdown for now, setting up another legal test of the Trump administration’s ability to write its own rules for executive branch agencies.

As supporters fight to save the program, they are pointing to statistical errors the Department of Labor made in building a case to ax the program.

The U.S. labor secretary said last week the Job Corps is failing its original mission and wasting taxpayer money. But supporters say the Department of Labor cherry-picked statist

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